Matthew Daniel

Drink With Newlin For a Solid A

"OK, so here's the thing. In South America, when these guys want to let you know that this is a serious wine, they put it in a really, really heavy bottle."

By Matthew Daniel | Mar 28 12:00 am ET

Debating Walmart: Always Low Prices, Always a Controversy

At a debate last night over the policies and practices of the world's largest company, Wal-mart, panelists traded statistics and retorts on issues ranging from vacant lots to the very nature of cap

By Matthew Daniel | Apr 28 12:00 am ET

Who's on Tapas?

The American diet is not marked by a heap of dirty dishes.

By Matthew Daniel | Apr 20 12:00 am ET

The Ins and Outs of Vino Italiano

Wine is to Italians what BudLight is to NASCAR fans. No, it's not a sure way to slowly grow a waistline in a perpetual stupor (although there's plenty of that).

By Matthew Daniel | Mar 2 12:00 am ET

Students Get a Taste of Kymyz

It smells a little like chloroform and pickles and tastes a lot like rotten eggs in olive brine, but kymyz, the fermented horse milk that is the national drink of Kyrgyzstan, brought the crowd in t

By Matthew Daniel | Feb 21 12:00 am ET

Grab the Grappa

With the world's eyes now fixed on the slopes of Torino, that's Turin to the rest of us, a few words should be said about clear spirit of choice among the brash and brave of Italy: grappa.

By Matthew Daniel | Feb 16 12:00 am ET

Cheers to Cheap and Affordable New Wine Blends

Once upon a time, blended wines, which are made from more than one varietal, were thought to be the sole province of the European dinosaurs.

By Matthew Daniel | Jan 25 12:00 am ET

On Caffeine

Forget Seattle. Sure, that foggy bottom by the sea may have spawned the jolly green giant of the latte-sipping everyman, but this is a different time, a different place.

By Matthew Daniel | Nov 30 12:00 am ET

Booze for the Bird

Wine is always a conundrum come holiday time. Does it need to complement the turkey, or the stuffing, or the cranberry sauce?

By Matthew Daniel | Nov 22 12:00 am ET

Unknown Italians

There is more to Italy than the sweeping hillsides of Tuscany, though any casual glance through the calendars now rolling into bookstores, or the woefully sparse Italian selection at the local wine

By Matthew Daniel | Nov 1 12:00 am ET

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